Barbers Against Prostate Cancer: Engaging Barbers to Administer a Prostate Cancer Education Intervention to Their Customers
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
4-2014
Abstract or Description
The goal of this pilot study was to assess the feasibility of training barbers to deliver a brief culturally and literacy appropriate prostate cancer educational intervention to urban African American men. Eight barbers received training to deliver a 2-month educational intervention in the barbershop and completed pre- and posttest training assessments. The training workshops led to a significant increase in mean prostate cancer knowledge scores among the barbers (60% before vs. 79% after; P < 0.05). The barbers also reported positively on the intervention in terms of satisfaction and relative ease of engaging clients. Training barbers to deliver a prostate cancer educational intervention is a feasible strategy for raising prostate cancer awareness of the disease among a priority population.
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
Georgia Southern University Research Symposium
Location
Statesboro, GA
Recommended Citation
Roy, Siddhartha, Yelena N. Tarasenko, Levi Ross, John Luque.
2014.
"Barbers Against Prostate Cancer: Engaging Barbers to Administer a Prostate Cancer Education Intervention to Their Customers."
Epidemiology Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 26.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/epid-facpres/26
